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Demographics and Aggregate Household Saving in Japan, China, and India
Curtis, Chadwick - 2015
aggregate household saving rates in Japan, China, and India. The observed age distributions help explain the contrasting saving … lower household saving rates in Japan and China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013015546
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Policy Options for Financing the Future Health and Long-Term Care Costs in Japan
Fukui, Tadashi - 2006
As the Japanese population structure changes, health care and long-term care costs will steadily increase. The current style of financing (pay-as-you-go) will create a large increase in future burden of these costs. This paper studies an alternative policy that prefunds the social insurance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012779601
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Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations
Sacerdote, Bruce - 2010
fertility nations (Japan, Spain, Italy) as being in this regime. At even higher levels of women's status, men begin to share in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012759186
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Demographic Dynamics, Labor Force Participation and Household Asset Accumulation : Case of Japan
Ando, Albert; Moro, Andrea - 2021
A dynamic model of the demographic structure of Japan is summarized. It is capable of tracing the dynamic development … Japan will increase slightly in the immediate future as the number of children per family declines sharply, and then fall …, unless some major changes in Japanese saving behavior take place, our analysis suggests that Japan will have an unusually …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227507
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Demographic Patterns and Household Saving in China
Curtis, Chadwick - 2011
This paper studies the effect that changing demographic patterns have had on the household saving rate in China. We undertake a quantitative investigation using an overlapping generations (OLG) model where agents live for 85 years. Consumers begin to exercise decision making when they are 18....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129127
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Implications of Population Aging for Economic Growth
Bloom, David E. - 2011
The share of the population aged 60 and over is projected to increase in nearly every country in the world during 2005-2050. Population ageing will tend to lower both labor-force participation and savings rates, thereby raising concerns about a future slowing of economic growth. Our calculations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013131060
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Sustainability and the Measurement of Wealth
Arrow, Kenneth J. - 2010
We develop a consistent and comprehensive theoretical framework for assessing whether economic growth is compatible with sustaining well-being over time. The framework focuses on whether a comprehensive measure of wealth - one that accounts for natural capital and human capital as well as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135234
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The Growth in Social Security Benefits Among the Retirement Age Population from Increases in the Cap on Covered Earnings
Gustman, Alan L. - 2010
This paper investigates how increases in the level of maximum earnings subject to the Social Security payroll tax have affected Social Security benefits and taxes. The analysis uses data from the Health and Retirement Study to ask how different the present value of own benefits and taxes would...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013136554
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Do Cash Transfers Improve Birth Outcomes? Evidence from Matched Vital Statistics, Social Security and Program Data
Amarante, Verónica - 2011
There is limited empirical evidence on whether unrestricted cash social assistance to poor pregnant women improves children's birth outcomes. Using program administrative micro-data matched to longitudinal vital statistics on the universe of births in Uruguay, we estimate that participation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013117209
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The Effect of Interventions to Reduce Fertility on Economic Growth
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2011
We assess quantitatively the effect of exogenous reductions in fertility on output per capita. Our simulation model allows for effects that run through schooling, the size and age structure of the population, capital accumulation, parental time input into child-rearing, and crowding of fixed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120983